Crunchyroll is raising its prices

What do we expect? I don't use crunchyroll now. A dark and long time ago I tried it out, but whatever they're saying about giving us more of what we love, they're just liars. Not even half of the catalogue was available in my region.

All tier prices will be up two buckaroos, so if no one unsubscribes then it'll be at least 17M * $2 = $34M more in Crunchycrunch's pocket each month. That will probably get them $375M-$400M more ka-chings in their bank account at the end of each year. With that Japanese animators can probably hope to see their wages go up by like $0.05/hour or something as a result of additional investments by the CrunchyCrew DX

Wow, so much for piracy not being a pricing problem. Though adjusted for inflation, $7.99 in 2019 (the last time prices were raised) is around $10.29 today, so over the long run, it's not much of a difference.

So what's the alternative? Should we still be paying $30 for 4-episode discs that come out ~2 years after the Japanese broadcast, like in the pre-streaming era?

Every non-Japanese/international streaming site got [url=https://dubdb.fandom.com/wiki/お兄ちゃんはおしまい！]the same[/url] censored version. I don't know what compels you to keep lying about this.

The irony, a pirate really worried about the quality of service they have likely never paid for before, going up in price based on the inflation of everything else in the world going up in price. lol

Easy to tell when people bitch and whine about prices for a single streaming service when chances are high they are likely not paying for anything else in their life or ever have. Since 2019 the price of everything has gone up between 25% to 50%+. This includes, foods, insurance premiums, internet, cable services, utilities, shipping costs, Gas prices, transportation, medical services, computers, cars, etc... Not like the quality of this shit has gone up since 2019 either, in most cases it's gone down too. lol

To give people some perspective... Motor vehicle insurance up 50%+, Utility services 45%+, Electricity 35%+, Meats, poultry & fish 35%+, generally dining out 30%+, cars 35%+, Rent & shelter costs 35%+, general food and beverages overall 25%+, electronics such as computers 30%+, and general gas prices have fluctuated between 25%~ 50% since 2019, etc... Fuck, health insurance just for myself has gone up 55% since 2019...

Last time I went to buy groceries the cost of a cup of instant noodles that used to be $2 is now $2.49, The cost of can of pringles up 28%, the cost of eggs has gone up 30% too, etc... and this was at Wal-Mart of all fucking places. Where I noticed a general increase of grocery expenses has gone up on an average of 25% on everything I have bought in the last few weeks. lol

People bitching and whining about a service price they have never paid for while highly likely living an expense free cushy life off someone else’s wallet might want to remember that one day the bills aren’t theirs to cover. Reality has a way of catching up too. lol

LMFAO... not you personally… unless you’re secretly a NEET living off someone else’s bills. lol

Just pointing out a general trend I’ve noticed... people bitching and whining about minor subscription hikes while everything else in life keeps skyrocketing. OP has admitted to being a NEET in the past on this very platform before too, so if that counts as an “imagined loser” to you, then sure (they have even called themself a loser before). lol

Genuine question, why does this matter to you if you don't use it? Based on your stance that "streaming should never have been a thing", anime being accessible, or less accessible, to other people is clearly not something you value lol

Crunchyroll didn't buy egg firm, Aniplex did. Which btw, Aniplex and Egg Firm have already worked together before with Ruri Rocks, and that show was awesome and had fanservice.

Also the Onimai censored version wasn't made by Crunchyroll, nor were they the only streaming services to have the censored version.

@GreatAide It's just a simple case of brain rot. He doesn't even remember why he hates them.

@KittenCuddler TheyDidTheMath but yep trickle down economics is a sham

i thought its common knowledge that piracy is a pricing problem? heck piracy is also a service problem said by gaben of steam but then steam itself has regional pricing and frequent discounts so back to piracy is a pricing problem

All tier prices will be up two buckaroos, so if no one unsubscribes then it'll be at least 17M * $2 = $34M more in Crunchycrunch's pocket each month. That will probably get them $375M-$400M more ka-chings in their bank account at the end of each year. With that Japanese animators can probably hope to see their wages go up by like $0.05/hour or something as a result of additional investments by the CrunchyCrew DX

@KittenCuddler Glad to see you finally admit that Crunchyroll is evil. They also fund the genocide in Palestine. Their AI subtitling company is the "Israeli" company OOONA.

Speaking of which, are you aware that Wix.com is an "Israeli" company that manufactures software used to spy on and bomb Palestinians? I noticed that your website uses it. They also censor any website that goes against their genocide. There are many alternatives to Wix.

Does anyone still use Crunchyroll? I thought everyone left them around 2017-2018, with a few stragglers sticking with them into 2019-2020, but then they left after that point. This was already before they started using crappy AI-generated subtitles, but that was surely the final nail in the coffin. It's honestly surprising to me that the site still exists.


Oh, gross. When the time comes for Nuremberg 2.0, I hope these companies will be held accountable for their role in the genocide.

They seem to be doing fine. 17 million subscribers in 2025. That's up from 15 million subscribers in 2024. Source: Deadline Hollywood

I'm not aware of their pre-2020 history, but you can thank the 2020 lockdown and the following anime boom for their more recent success.